Brutal Vibe Audit

When the user questions code quality, asks for technical reviews, or wants to distinguish real engineering from AI slop, apply the 20-metric engineering audit.

Auto-Trigger Patterns

• "Code review" or "technical audit" requests
• Questions about "production readiness"
• "Vibe check" or "slop check" on code
• Concerns about "AI-generated code" quality
• Technical due diligence needs
• Questions like "can we ship this?"
• Architecture reviews
• Security or performance concerns
• Quality assessment requests

What This Skill Does

Scores engineering reality across 20 metrics (0-5 each, 100 total):

Section A: Architecture & Vibe (1-5)

1. Architectural Justification
2. Dependency Bloat
3. README vs Reality Gap
4. AI Hallucination Smell
5. Folder Structure Sanity

Section B: Core Engineering (6-10) 6. Error Handling Strategy 7. Concurrency Model 8. Data Structures & Algorithms 9. Memory Management 10. Type Safety & Contracts

Section C: Performance & Scale (11-14) 11. Critical Path Latency 12. Backpressure & Limits 13. State Management 14. Network Efficiency

Section D: Security & Robustness (15-17) 15. Input Validation & Trust 16. Secrets & Supply Chain 17. Observability

Section E: QA & Operations (18-20) 18. Test Reality 19. CI/CD & Reproducibility 20. Bus Factor & Maintainability

Verdict Bands

• 0-40: VIBE CODING SCRAP - Rewrite
• 41-60: AI/JUNIOR PROTOTYPE - 70% rewrite
• 61-75: TECHNICAL DEBT BOMB - Refactor before scaling
• 76-85: SOLID ENGINEERING - Ship with monitoring
• 86-95: PROFESSIONAL GRADE - Minor polish
• 96-100: UNICORN TIER - NASA level

When to Use

• Pre-launch technical reviews
• Code quality assessments
• Technical due diligence (M&A, investment)
• AI-generated code validation
• Architecture decisions
• Performance concerns
• Security audits

Complementary Audits

• Jobs Audit: If UX/design also needs review
• Carlin Audit: If marketing claims need verification
• Multi-Audit: For comprehensive product analysis

Invoke

Use /vibe-audit [codebase path] for explicit invocation.